scattered over the heathy country, on the boundaries of Dorsetshire and Hampshire, were strictly examined by Lumley; and the clown, with whom Monmouth had changed clothes, was discovered. Portman came with a strong body of horse and foot to assist in the search. Attention was soon drawn to a place well fitted to shelter fugitives. It was an extensive tract of land separated by an inclosure from the open country, and divided by numerous hedges into small fields. In some of these fields the rye, the pease, and the oats were high enough to conceal a man. Others were overgrown with fern and brambles. A poor woman reported, that she had seen two strangers lurking in this covert. The near prospect of reward animated the zeal of the troops. It was agreed, that every man, who did his duty in the search, should have a share of the promised five thousand pounds. The outer fence was strictly guarded: the space within was examined with indefatigable diligence: and several dogs of quick scent were turned out among the bushes. The day closed before the search could be completed; but careful watch was kept all night. Thirty times the fugitives returned to look through the outer hedge; but everywhere they found a sentinel on the alert: once they were seen and fired at; they then separated and concealed themselves in different hidingplaces. At sunrise the next morning the search recommenced, and Buyse was found. He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before. The corn and copsewood were now beaten with more care than ever. At length a gaunt figure was discovered hidden in a ditch. The pursuers sprang upon their prey. Some of them were about to fire; but Portman forbade all violence. The prisoner's dress was that of a shepherd; his beard prematurely grey, was of several days' growth. He trembled greatly and was unable to speak. Even those who had seen him often were at first in doubt whether this were truly the brilliant and graceful Monmouth. His pockets were searched by Portman, and in them were found, among some raw pease gathered in the rage of hunger, a watch, a purse of gold, a small treatise on fortification, an album filled with songs, receipts, prayers, and charms, and the George with which, many years before, King Charles II. had decorated his favourite son. Messengers were instantly despatched to Whitehall with the good news, and with the George as a token that the news was true. LORD MACAULAY'S History of England. HOW SOME OF OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES ARE WASTED. DURING the four years ending 1869, the money directly expended upon intoxicating liquors in the United Kingdom amounted to the enormous sum of £450,398,201, being an increase upon the four years ending 1860 of £81,621,107, or £20,405,276 per annum. 'During the same four years (ending 1869), the home consumption of textile fabrics, including cotton, woollen, and linen, was 233,921,000fb. less than it was during the four years ending 1860. Why? For the simple reason that people cannot pour their money down their throats, and put it upon their backs at the same time. of "During the year 1869, the people of this country expended upon intoxicating liquors the sum £112,885,603, whilst upon cotton goods our staple trade-they spent only £8,501,737, or, in other words, we paid £3, 13s. 2d. per head for drink, and only 6s. Od. for our most useful article of clothing. No wonder that so many homes are miserable, and so many people are clad in rags. "For the manufacture of this enormous quantity of intoxicating liquor, an amount of grain or produce is every year destroyed, equal to 70,000,000 bushels of grain, and if this grain were converted into flour and baked into bread, it would make about 1,000,000,000 4lb. loaves, and would give about 170 loaves yearly to every family of five persons throughout the United Kingdom. "If we add together the money spent directly upon drink, the cost of pauperism, crime, loss of labour, waste of food, expense of accidents, disease, &c., which result through drink, the total loss to the nation will amount to more than £240,000,000 per annum. "Notwithstanding our unprecedented facilities for getting wealth, on the 1st of January 1870, there were 1,281,651 persons, whose names were on the books of parish unions as paupers, and if these were multiplied by 3 in order to get the entire number of applications for relief during the whole of the year, it would give over 4 million persons who are every year in a state of pauperism, and who are obliged to get assistance from the public, or about one to every seven of the population. "In the year 1860 there was spent upon drink in the United Kingdom £86,897,683. In that year there were 1,010,158 paupers, and we paid for poor's and policerates £9,269,807. In the year 1869 the expenditure on drink had increased to £112,885,603, whilst the number of paupers had increased to 1,281,651; and the amount paid for poor's and police-rates to £13,511,827; or, comparing the latter year with the former, we find that, whilst the expenditure upon drink increased 29 per cent., the number of paupers increased to 25 per cent., and the poor's and police-rates increased 44 per cent. "If the reader will consider the fact that, in addition to those who become actual paupers, there is a large number of others who are reduced to destitution by habits of intemperance, but who get help from their friends and never trouble the parish, he will be able to form some faint idea of the appalling mischief which results from drunkenness. "In the United Kingdom there are 98,009 publichouses, 52,590 beershops, besides 35,497 wineshops, &c., making a grand total of 186,096, or about one to every 34 houses. "These houses originally were established for victualling, and not for tippling. Publicans now obtain permission to sell intoxicating liquors only on condition that they will not adulterate their drinks, that they will not permit drunkenness or disorderly conduct in their houses, &c.; and yet it is estimated that there are upwards of 600,000 habitual drunkards, who are all, or nearly so, the victims of the public-house. "Whilst cotton-mills and other manufactories are prohibited (and very properly too) from working more than 60 hours per week, these manufactories of pauperism, crime, &c., are allowed to work upwards of 120 hours; and, not content with this, they work 8 hours on Sundays also. "These facts prove the paralysing influence of the Liquor Traffic upon our industrial resources, and how it tends to impoverish and pauperise the nation. The universal testimony of all who have opportunity to investigate the matter is, that the Liquor Traffic not only paralyses trade and induces pauperism, but that it is also the main source of nearly all the crime, lunacy, and social demoralisation, that exists in our land. "Our National Resources," by W. HOYLE "JOIN OUR TEMPERANCE ARMY, BOYS!" Join the Temperance Army, boys! No; we'll teach him to abstain. Join the Temperance Army, boys! Better in the right be single, Than with thousands drink and die. INCREASE OF WAGES AND INCREASE OF THE REV. W. Caine, Rector of Denton, Manchester, and |